Lee Jasmine K W, Janssen Steve M J, Estudillo Alejandro J
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia.
Iperception. 2022 Jul 6;13(4):20416695221111409. doi: 10.1177/20416695221111409. eCollection 2022 Jul.
It is widely accepted that face perception relies on holistic processing. However, this holistic advantage is not always found in the processing of the own face. Our study aimed to explore the role of holistic and featural processing in the identification of the own face, using three standard, but largely independent measures of holistic face processing: the face inversion task, the composite face task, and the part-whole task. Participants were asked to identify their face, a friend's face, and an unfamiliar face in three different experimental blocks: (a) inverted versus upright; (b) top and bottom halves of the face aligned versus misaligned; and (c) facial features presented in isolation versus whole foil face context. Inverting a face impaired its identification, regardless of the identity. However, alignment effects were only found when identifying a friend or an unfamiliar face. In addition, a stronger feature advantage (i.e., better recognition for isolated features compared to in a whole-face context) was observed for the own face compared to the friend and unfamiliar faces. Altogether, these findings suggest that the own face is processed in a more featural manner but also relies on holistic processing. This work also highlights the importance of taking into consideration that different holistic processing paradigms could tap different forms of holistic processing.
人们普遍认为面部感知依赖于整体加工。然而，这种整体优势在加工自己的面部时并不总是能发现。我们的研究旨在利用三种标准但在很大程度上相互独立的整体面部加工测量方法，即面部倒置任务、合成面部任务和部分-整体任务，来探究整体加工和特征加工在识别自己面部中的作用。参与者被要求在三个不同的实验块中识别自己的面部、朋友的面部和一张陌生的面部：（a）倒置与正立；（b）面部的上半部分和下半部分对齐与未对齐；以及（c）孤立呈现的面部特征与完整陪体面背景。倒置面部会损害对面部的识别，无论其身份如何。然而，对齐效应仅在识别朋友或陌生面部时被发现。此外，与朋友和陌生面部相比，在识别自己的面部时观察到更强的特征优势（即与在完整面部背景中相比，孤立特征的识别更好）。总之，这些发现表明自己的面部是以更依赖特征的方式进行加工的，但也依赖于整体加工。这项工作还强调了考虑到不同的整体加工范式可能挖掘出不同形式的整体加工的重要性。
